Cassettes are like music diaries. Years later you will find them in a box and be reminded of a specific time. Or discover someone else's cassettes. That's what I like the most: They are documentation. Digital traces (like a playlist on a streaming service) will more likely get deleted or go undiscovered.

@AntuNeelesh

2 жыл бұрын

wonderfully said

@EmeraldPixelGamingEPG

2 жыл бұрын

Cassettes follow the same fate in a much more ugly way. Degradation

@ACommenterOnYouTube

2 жыл бұрын

Yea i went into my attic to get a box and ran into another box that had my old VHS tapes, DVD's, CD's and cassette's ... Yea that sparked up some memories. Those are all hard copies of the music or movies where you may find them on a streaming service TODAY but in ~15 years will be deleted because time's are changing. And once deleted from streaming, its GONE unless you have that hard copy. Perfect example is the Star Wars episode where Vader says, NO I AM YOUR FATHER where everyone thought he said LUKE I AM YOUR FATHER ... Having that hard copy DVD or VHS can show proof of what he actually said vs what they remember him saying. Problem is that MOST go with technology and change with technology. I knew that VHS would come to a stop eventually and it did around ~2005. VCR's stopped in 2016. With today's streaming, i am shocked that DVD's are still made and people still buy them. I have 3 dvd/Blu-ray players in my home and 1 VCR and i stopped buying VHS when DVD's replaced them and stopped buying DVD's around ~2010 ... I just didn't see any point to buy a DVD when i could stream them "illegally" ...

@ACommenterOnYouTube

2 жыл бұрын

@@EmeraldPixelGamingEPG it depends on how they are stored. I have cassette's from 88 (33 yrs old) that still play rock solid. If they are stored in a HOT attic basement without a case and just left open, yea they will deteriorate. But if you have them in a temperature controlled house and its inside its case, i don't see why they would not last 40 yrs easy.

@HealthFitnessMartialArtsDEng

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. I have hundreds of cassettes all still in great shape from the late 70's into the 80's and 90's. They've all been stored well, just like my albums. I've played them all this time!

I found a well-kept 1990's Hi-Fi tape deck that retailed for $700 used for $60. I was amazed how well my old tapes sounded. They never sounded that good when I was in my teens and 20's! Most of us that remember the hissing sound of cassettes...blamed the tapes but in reality it may have been the super-cheap equipment that we could only afford back then.

@botany500kojak

3 жыл бұрын

Great find.

@steffenbrix

2 жыл бұрын

And bad azimuth adjustments

@VIDSTORAGE

2 жыл бұрын

Cheap turntables do the same .,,any type of an overly cheap made analog equipment makes the best analog media sound really bad and you have to keep heads cleaned and demagenatized and adjust the azimuth if you have va hard time hearing high notes and cymbals ..

@HealthFitnessMartialArtsDEng

2 жыл бұрын

what deck did purchase for that $60!?

@michaeldonaldson6667

2 жыл бұрын

A high fi cassette player will make your tapes sound good, almost sound like cd's

I am still involved with cassettes for over 50 years. I recently have bought new old stock cassettes and have stereo and boom- boxes 📦. I am glad, like with vinyl records, there is a resurgence of cassettes. I am 77 years old. Ray

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

Way to go Ray, you Rock!!🤘

@daviddavidsonn3578

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder where these cassettes will go after you pass away.

@raymondmartin6737

3 жыл бұрын

@@daviddavidsonn3578 I hope someone will enjoy 😉 and care for them. Ray

@ACommenterOnYouTube

2 жыл бұрын

@@daviddavidsonn3578 depending on his kids or grand kids, probably TRASH ... My father in law just passed away several months ago and i "inherited" his 400 vinyl record collection that he had THAT his 3 daughters (one being my wife) were going to throw in the trash. My wife's uncle purchased a used trailer and the old tenant left the old bedroom wall unit in the room to find out that the bottom 5 shelves that were LOCKED had 250 records inside. So now i have 650 records in my hand.

@ACommenterOnYouTube

2 жыл бұрын

I just purchased a Panasonic RX-D55 "boom-box" that is a CD and cassette player. It records on cassette pretty well, very impressed.

I like all physical media "records, tapes, CDs, etc."! Simply for "choices" , back in the day you had lots of choices! These days its like "take the one format that makes us the most money or is the most convenient! Let's get back to choices!

@justincanton

3 жыл бұрын

Not just that, but it makes the distributors and streaming services money but unfortunately not the artists. I know Caz I am one, Ive been in music for 30 years and now the industry for artists is over as it stands. Sad

@lucasrem

2 жыл бұрын

u should use CD's then, many people still do Cassettes' were crap from the begin

@salomelaw4797

2 жыл бұрын

I agree imagine if everyone had walkmans now that would be sick

I'm 26 about to be 27 next month, and i have 60+ cassettes in total. I love collecting them and i've always used tapes ever since i was a kid. It's a whole vibe and it's a different experience. I'll continue to collect and use cassette tapes until i die.

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

My hero!!

@UrOpinionsSucc

3 жыл бұрын

@@anadialog thank you!

@ahah1785

Жыл бұрын

its getting really tuff to find tapes nowdays...this sux...

@soulslip

Жыл бұрын

@@ahah1785i guess that depends where you live... I find NOS high end tales all the time where I am at. Including blanks, pre-recorded, lots of cassette decks and reel to reel machines. The last few years have been really fun for thrifting.

Another reason to love cassettes. And so. I was born in 1968 two years later (1970) I started saying my first words. Then my father recorded me on a reporter cassette player PHILIPS. The cassette is from the same brand. Since then they have passed 51 years old! Last year I filled my collection with the top model deck for 1976 JVC KD-95. And guess what? I released the tape from my childhood. Both the recording and the tape are in perfect condition! 51 years! ....

What was so GREAT about cassette's .... Back in the late 80's and early 90's we had a radio station that on Friday nights would have their special DJ do his special 2 hr mix combining 80's and 90's music. This guy was gifted. His mix was impressive to say the least. This is where the CASSETTE came into play. Just waited for 10pm to arrive, HIT RECORD and just record the entire 2 hrs of mixing music. That was the mix you had for the next week until he did it again next friday night. You then either erase the cassette and start over or just drop in a new one and just label the last one and keep it to have it. 47 yrs old here and still have some of my cassette's ...

I'm so thankful for my dad keeping my 1981 JVC boom box all these years without knowing. He recently past and going through his items I found around 60 cassette tapes some that were mine and his! I restored my boom box and playing all the cassettes...📻🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

Good job! That is an amazing memory to hold on to! Can't exchange it for anything...congrats!

I liked using Chrome tapes to record my albums. 😎✌❤

I love listening to my old cassettes! My family even likes some of them, too! A couple of years ago, I picked up an excellent late 1980s JVC cassette deck that works flawlessly. I found it at a thrift store for $8 and have been very happy with it. I also inherited my dad's old late 1970s Kenwood cassette deck. It needs a belt to run correctly, but it's build quality is incredible! I can't wait to hear it when I get it fixed.

I exclusively support the format here in the USA by repairing decent to low end cassette decks. From my experience you don't need a high end cassette deck to enjoy the benefits of recording or playback. I find that even some low end or even dual cassette decks have some decent features and still make great recordings. A good point I must stress is to buy a deck that has been serviced. Most that sell on sites like eBay and others will just list them as they found them and never check the tape tension, or replace worn belts. The belts get soft and turn into black goo. They will most often fail after short use if the unit was not serviced or at least inspected. BUY A SERVICED TAPE DECK.

I'm happy to have several cassette decks - both two and thre head ones. Also I have over 1500 cassette tapes and a few hundred still not opened. Maybe I will be rich one day. ;-)

@lucasrem

2 жыл бұрын

3 heads, i guess, why you need that, Karaoke? pre listening? ritch, muhahahaha, you should farm bitcoins, no this crap!

@e28forever30

3 ай бұрын

@@lucasrem Idiot

I recall back in the early '80's, a lady I met at my Radio Shack job paid me money to make her a wedding tape. She said it sounded good. My first professional recording gig.

@lucasrem

2 жыл бұрын

wedding tape, Leno Richard? Big in Japan? Golden earing?

@marvieachanzar4674

10 ай бұрын

AWESOME ! My musical soul is uplifted on what you accomplished.

@ReadMoreSayLess

4 ай бұрын

Radio Shack! Love it! Thanks. Memories. I remember their free battery of the month cards....every month card stamped... free battery delivered. :)

Making home made Mix tapes in the late 70s early 80s was the one trendy behavior that scared record company music executives because home made cassette tapes were traded and given away which paved the way for the executives to print on the vinyl packaging "home taping is killing music". They hated that people traded mix tapes back in the early 80s. They would never attempt that push again.🤣🤣🤣 Hip hopsters got their "soundbites" from mix tapers!

@stevenclarke5606

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it was the first version of a play list! It was also something that you did for your girlfriend, to show how cool you were.

@grizzlyaddams3606

3 жыл бұрын

I ronic how they killed those who were actually keeping them in business... Shame.

I still like listening / making cassettes as you feel like you had your part in making the music

@lucasrem

2 жыл бұрын

What music you make, Punk, 70' music? Of they buy your tracks online, send them a cassette tape, gimmick.

I have just got back into HiFi, after many years, I’ve assembled a system with a turntable, cassette deck, mini disc and graphic equaliser, and I’m now enjoying my music. I would really like a reel to reel tape machine, but they’re really expensive and I’m not sure if the sound quality would be as good as my cassette deck with Dolby S . I have managed to purchase cassettes from eBay, that are new old stock , still in original wrapping . I normally purchase type 2 chrome cassettes . I love the physical quality of vinyl and cassettes, you can hold and it see it , I’m really impressed with mini disc , it’s a really great medium, I don’t understand why they never really took off!

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome Back! Quality R2R is the best out there but it comes with a lot of hassle...too much probably! A high quality cassettes chain comes close IMHO.

@AudioGuyBrian

3 жыл бұрын

@@anadialog Like you said Guido, the tactile feel of cassettes and oh that waxy smell of the pure chrome tapes. MMmmmm. Delicious! I love tapes and my cassette decks. (All 7 of them)

@SomeAngryGuy1997

3 жыл бұрын

Open-Reel tapes have the best quality analog has to offer. There's a reason Reel-To-Reel tapes were used as masters.

@alanrogs3990

3 жыл бұрын

If you listened to a nice reel to reel tape even on a middle priced reel to reel player your jaw will drop.

@sumonmiah1902

3 жыл бұрын

I never left the hifi world,after 32yrs of collecting i must say i got some collectors items that i couldnt pay for today😊

Got back into cassettes last year and restored my old decks and my old tapes from the 80s. Even got an Akai GX-95 deck as 2nd deck and bought NOS blank tapes to start recording. Also joined some cassette & vintage decks in FB Groups. Yeah, really enjoying the good old days of cassette tapes.

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

Cool!

I buy all of my cassette tapes at the local thrift stores, mostly classical. You did a video about two years ago which explained how to re-lube your tapes. If you buy your cassettes at Goodwill, Salvation Army or some such place you will have tapes that sometimes run slow or stop completely. I strongly recommend this video. It sometimes takes a week or two or three or even a month, but it does work!

I just got a Sony Cassette Deck for fifteen dollars at my local thrift store. I wasn’t able to get speakers for it, but I was allowed to set it up in the living room so I could listen through our home speakers. All of my tapes sound so good!! I’m very excited to get brand new releases on cassette to see how they sound! Love the video man, keep it up!

@anadialog

2 жыл бұрын

Bravo!!

I found a tape from 25 years ago and played it on a basic player and was amazed how good it sounded on my hifi system, truly did not expect it. didn't have a HiFi system 25 years ago, so now I can listen to all my tapes again and enjoy all the music I missed back then... wohooo very nice discovery

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

Cool!

I really appreciate cassettes as a form of exercising rights and ownership. While services like Spotify and KZread music are convenient I dislike how we are moving away from a model where we actually own anything. I hate it when I want to listen to music, but I forgot to download the trac before leaving my house and I don't feel like burning data. Sometimes there will be login errors and I am unable to get my music because I clicked the wrong login info or there is a glitch in the app. I want to be able to own an album, and it allows for some flexibility. I want to support artists on places like bandcamp, but it can also be inconvenient to have to either download the FLACs or stream it, which again have several downsides.

@anadialog

2 жыл бұрын

True...

Cassettes are a lot of fun. I got back into it a couple years ago and I now have five great decks that I record my records on. 90% of the sound quality comes from the deck. 30-40 year old prerecorded cassettes and recordings I’ve made on standard quality type I cassettes sound absolutely fantastic. It blows my mind because I remember how bad they used to sound on crap equipment I had as a teenager and young adult. I prefer Nakamichi decks, myself. Can’t go wrong with them..

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

@marvieachanzar4674

10 ай бұрын

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT !!!👍🥰

Nice to see cassettes still getting the love. I never left cassettes, and have picked up loads more in last few years at very cheap prices. Same with sealed cassettes. The TEAC W1200 ( think thats the model) is the only half-way decent new deck being made. I have Yamaha, Technics and Panasonic decks and love them. * Have you ever come across any Nakamichi Reference recordings- if so, lucky person. Also, any Chasing The Dragon cassettes? Going off- piste a bit, have you bought any Dutton Vocalion CD's. I have not given up on recording audio to HiFi VHS & now have a Nokia VHS machine which has separate audio settings and record level meters- certainly intetesting. Best wishes now.

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't, I tried in the past but just ro expensive now :-(

@nickbitten6037

3 жыл бұрын

@@anadialog - thanks for the reply. I know what you mean about the price. Have a great day and look forward to your next video.

I used to spend so much time curating the sound / feel I wanted for my cassettes. I felt like I worked for Time and Life. I miss mylar so I'm very happy to see this video!

Thank you so much for this most informative production about an audio format that has brought much joy to my life. I still have quite a few blank metal and chrome tapes that I bought while working at Radio Shack in the '80's. I used several to record a live broadcast of the 12/12/12. I still have my cassette music collection. As a young teen, I recorded many compellation tapes from the radio. It is a good way to record music if the DJ's give you a heads up of what is about to be played and didn't talk before or after the songs. I found my very nice Denon deck at a pawn shop, reasonably priced. I programmed a remote to perform it's functions. I got a LOT of use from my tape deck in my car. It is good to know that this quality format is being discovered by the younger generation.

On eBay, I recently purchased an old fashioned Panasonic music centre from the early 1980s. I recently have gone back to the nostalgia of recording from the vinyl records onto cassette again. Brings back lots of memories. Sometimes I still digitise stuff, but you cannot beat the old cassette’s and I still love the idea of having cassette’s recorded on a certain high-quality recorder.

I'm 20, almost 21. I remember playing my dads remaining cassettes when I was a little kid. Just now tried looking for them, and his old cassette player. No luck on both fronts. It makes me sad. Parents probably got rid of them thinking cassettes would never come back. I also have an extensive Vinyl Record collection. With an Audio Technica turn table. HAPPY UPDATE! Found the cassette player, and a tape still inside it. Gonna try looking for other tapes.

I got really lucky here in Kona Hawaii ( I'm originally from England ) I bought a Pioneer CT-M6R 6 cassette changer in perfect working condition , then I found a JVC KDS201 cassette player Which is brand new , lastly on Ebay I found a 1971 Sony TC-20 car cassette player that is also never used , the car player is going in my 1971 BMW 2002 , I too am reliving my cassette loving youth , thanks for a great video .

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

Cool!

Nice video! One "feature" of cassettes my son pointed out to me is unlike CD/LP they "remember" where you stopped them between plays. My opinion (for more mass market decks) is the models from the late 70s-early 80s look the best and are a good combination of quality construction and features, as there was much competition at the time. As time went on things got cheaper, i.e. more plastic and less substantial flywheels etc.

In the UK in the 1970s when I was moving from one tiny austere dwelling to the next, my cassettes followed me. They were tapes of my vinyl collection which resided in my parents garage. They were easy to transport and store plus held a lot of music. When I started collecting CDs, I taped them to play in my car. Got a few treasured bootlegs on cassette and still have a player. Also, who can forget the alchemy in making those special mix tapes?

Unfortunate the minidisc (the “new” cassette) got lost down the memory hole. Recordable, portable, nearly indestructible, and ingenious, the minidisc had a lot going for it.

@TVwriter23

Жыл бұрын

I remember those

@tonyjuliano1

Жыл бұрын

The minidisc was superior to the compact cassette, in every conceivable way. Now thwre is a format that needs to be brought back.

@tomooo2637

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately digital got DRM ed making it difficult to record stuff. You will hit the same problem now and that is why analog stays around

@gamingguy9006

11 ай бұрын

​@@tonyjuliano1Disagree since minidisc actually sounded worse than even mp3

@mrglasses8953

6 ай бұрын

@@gamingguy9006 ATRAC 3 is easily on par with 256-320 kbps mp3 and hi-MD allows you to record losslessly.

Why the Turntable, Tape deck, CD Player, Real to Real, Mini disc player and Graffic equalizer ever died of death I'll never know, it's just fantastic playing these formats on great high end machines, just having music on your Phone just never did it for me, I'm so glad it's nearly all coming back, still have my Vinyl, Cds and Tapes, just starting to get all my audio equipment again, I'm just loving this hobby all over again, great video 👍

@anadialog

2 жыл бұрын

Bravo!

You know just about everything he said I can relate to and what makes cassettes so captivating to me. I'm only 16 so I've obviously never owned a cassette tape or anything as such, but ive spent the past year or so learning everything I could, learning about the history, finding decks and Walkman's I could collect and i have found that there are plenty of things that draw me closer closer to this, as ana[dia]log states, "underground" community. I love the thought of having my favorite music that was brought together into a mixtape or a band's album in my hand, I dont have the nostalgia per se, but I feel there could be something emotional to it as well, for the older people they could miss their past or just missed what they used to do. I hope that one day this community eventually blows up and a big company rises and starts producing high quality decks and Walkman's again and we can buy these things off the shelves just like you guys used to years before. I really do hope I keep my interest and hopefully I soon get a job to allow me to connect even further with it.

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

Love to see your interest and passion at 16...welcome on board!

good video you put out I have still got and still used my massive collection of cassette tapes what do you think the kids we'll get into next maybe the MiniDisc

I grew up with cassettes, and on the whole I feel no loss that they're dead. CDs are another matter, the format needs a revival.

Real analog sound quality. That's the advantage of cassette.

@lucasrem

2 жыл бұрын

try vinyl! cassette is crap and will always be that...

@SuperSy99

2 жыл бұрын

@@lucasrem depend.i have cassette player with dolby C. Its sound fat rich than my mp3 player and CD.

@sc0or

2 жыл бұрын

Do you mean hiss, lack of highs, detonation and other signs of a "real analog" sound? If you would need an analog hi-fi, you'd use LP and expensive MC cartridge with heavy-heavy transformer.

I have a remanufactured Delco deck with the 5 band EQ in my '85 T/A and it sounds fantastic. People ask why I don't have a CD player or MP3 but I just like the way a good cassette sounds. Digital media just doesn't sound "right" to me. People don't realize how good these old decks and tapes can sound if they're taken care of and not thrashed.

i miss the basf and the maxell tapes!

@kamrankheradbeigi8754

3 жыл бұрын

We still have all of them 😁❤️

@mojavedesertsonorandesert9531

3 жыл бұрын

Hard to believe I still have two unopened after all these years! 📻🤘🏼🎸

@gfighter2400

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@RealEpikCartfrenYT

2 жыл бұрын

You can still buy new Maxell UR tapes

@jeffcharlton9660

2 жыл бұрын

Maxell was the best in my opinion.

I love the longer cassettes because I love to record more material on them.

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

Yes they are very useful but not too long, the film gets very thin and the oxide isn't that good anymore. IMHO stay below 90min.

@Lucrativecris

2 жыл бұрын

I have no issues with 90 or 100 min tapes

I love this video. I made 250 of my own custom cassettes from radio or records and then CDS from 1973 to 2000. Cassettes really added life to a lot of events I visited and it became a party with my music cassettes.

Great to listen to and watch this man, how passionately he talks. Greetings from the Netherlands Marco

I have been into cassettes since 79. I have refurbished two Pioneer CT-F9XX series decks. I have a lot of cassettes, mostly I recorded. Would like to see new decks made again. The only thing is hoping if someone makes new decks the price point is not as high as new reel to reel decks. Bring on the Analog!

I've been using cassettes since 1977 uninterrupted until this day... they just work everywhere, and sound GREAT if decent recorders and cassettes are used, right up to the level even trained ears cannot(!) determine whether listening to tape or source while recording. Even on a bug basic Sony HF cassette... this may very well happen to you if you own a Nakamichi CR-7E or a Tandberg TCD-3014A. For me, they work in my living room, in my hobby room, on the go with a Walkman, or even one of my Ghettoblaster,s and in both of my cars... just everywhere!!

Great video. Very well explained. I love cassettes. That was my medium as a music lover and musician since the 80s. Also vinyl. I still have a lot of my cassettes and records. I have a few nice cassette decks, and a lot of small portable players and recorders which I have modified to use for tape loops. Have picked up a couple of vintage decks recently. Got a nice Akai double deck from the late 80s. Another thing about the vintage gear - Made in Japan!

Great intro, love your work :) ♥️

My favorite part about cassettes is not only analog recording but long form listening. Its the only way to make a true track mix. No skipping. No jumping around. My favorite cassettes that I've made are of Ween's B-sides and rarities. Volume 1 and 2. Not all the mixing in the source tracks was in line with each other, except for on my compilation cassettes. Its the best mastering of those tracks that you can hear.

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

True!

I am 50 and have always been a physical media guy. Over the years I have put together a few really good systems shopping only at thrift stores. You go as often as I do and you eventually come across some decent components. My set ups includes vinyl, cd and cassettes. My heart always goes out to the people that got rid of all their media because of streaming and then later regret it because they get back into it; I’m thankful that I never did that.

great info ! tqvm...I totally agree, great sound and cheap ! can explore a lot of music... rgds & stay safe Azmi fr Malaysia

What I like most about compact cassette is the visual diversity. Lots and lots of different designs and colors through the years. No other medium has offered that.

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that is so true! I agree!

For me, it's a bit more complicated. During my teenage years in the 80s, my dad own some very decent HiFi equipment, including a Sansui QRX-5500 quadraphonic amp, JBL L150 (front), JBL L50 (rear) speakers, Technics SL-10 turntable, and a Pioneer CT-F750 tape deck. He appreciated good sounding music, but really didn't understand the technology behind it all. Nor did I. For example, I had no idea how Dolby B/C/S worked, what bias calibration was, 2 heads vs 3 heads, Type I/II/III/IV tapes, and that music reproduction in tapes can sound just as good as vinyl- if you knew all the aforementioned. Until recently. I am rediscovering what I did not know. Aside from refurbishing vintage equipment to make things work as they use to (like my JVC KD-D55 or Luxman K-106), I also use new technology to record my tapes. I use Djay Pro and its AI features to beat match and mix music with over 60 million tracks from Tidal using my Mac. I take my Sanyo M9990 boombox out by the pool to listen to my mixes, or maybe for a walk with one of my Walkmans. For me, it's a new appreciation for vintage technology and a breath of fresh air away from all my smart glass panes.

Omg! I was born in 1976. I have too many fond memories associated with these little pieces of time capsules. I just got reinvigorated about the hobby and am searching thrift store for decent players to share with my (equally old) friends. Thank you for your energy and enthusiasm, effort and thoroughness in reviewing these little pieces of time.

Had lot of fun making my own cassettes and playing them now, peace & love

Nice video. I'm glad I never got out of audio. I have hundreds of tapes and still have cassette decks in my cars! The thing these days is taking apart the old gear to refurish. Like the old days, it's nice playing music between the turntable, tape deck, reel to reel, CD player. My favorite is still the tape deck first, then the turntable (to preserve the album).

@anadialog

2 жыл бұрын

I like to change as well!

I saw a band released an 8 Track this year too. Itd be awesome to see those come back too because they are freakin neat

Good tape CrO2 II type or Metal IV type and good cassette deck tape recording can used for professional recording in music studio for very good analog warm sound and very natural sound. Than convert that sound in computer through professional sound card for DAW recording. Result is amazing! Reel to reel tape recording is too much expensive. Digital sound is only good for editing. Digital sound is dead sound.

@RealEpikCartfrenYT

2 жыл бұрын

Type 1 tapes can also sound good if you use a good recorder and tapes from reputable brands like Sony, TDK or Maxell

Still have my Cassettes from 1969 to 2000 - to my mind TDK SA 90 was the best money/quality buy. Was a VINYL DJ mainly in the early to mind 1980‘s and did some live club mixed back in the days on cassette for guests and some for me, too. And in the late 2000‘s all tapes were recorded in wav format by a profressional audio studio (REVOX)... now I have both well preserved cassettes and wav files, too.

@jeffcharlton9660

2 жыл бұрын

I read /heard somewhere recently that the SA 90 is the best selling tape in history.

Loved that you used New Orders Blue Monday in the intro😀. I do wonder whether anyone will bring out a high quality cassette deck again, it would be expensive but nice, high quality, expensive things usually are. I mean the vintage machines are getting increasingly old, with spares becoming more scarce.

One thing I loved about cassettes was the fact they were so easy to "make a new one". Many complained about how they wore out or didn't have long-term playability. I made cassettes from CDs or albums to use in walkmans, in the car, etc. I played it till it wore out and I could just make a new tape. I have an old Harmon Kardon tape deck from the 80s that is still going strong. I keep finding "new/old" blanks at the thrift store. Some are type 2.

I'm absolutely loving Audio again, it has been over 20 years since my last hifi system, never had separates back then, now I'm buying vintage equipment, so glad I didn't get rid of my Vinyl, Tape cassettes and Cd's, Cd's are cheap in the UK, bought 4 Cd albums for £2 just the other day, great video 👍

@anadialog

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome back!!

Awesome Intro!!!

I am so thrilled that I kept and preserved my pre-recorded cassette tapes and maintained by cassette decks. The sound quality is still excellent especially if they were recorded on Nakamichi, Teac, Revox & similar decks. I have Maxell UDXL & TDK Super Avilyn pre-recorded tapes that sound like they were just recorded yesterday! With anything else, these tapes just need to be maintained in a controlled environment and decks de-magnetized every so, often. Whether you are aware or not, people thrive on nostalgia and there's nothing better than a blast from the past!

Cassettes are back! HECK THEY HAVE BEEN BACK! I heard that some New High Quality cassette players are coming out soon.So keep a watch out for them.👍👍I've noticed alot of limited edition Cassettes you can purchase on ebay.Ive seen a Dr. Dre cassette limited edition and a tu pac limited edition Cassette.👍How cool is that.All the haters who hated cassettes will see that Cassettes are back and here to stay.Esp when the new players come out.2022 WILL BE A GREAT YEAR FOR CASSETTES AND THE NEW Cassette Players that will be out soon.👍I'm proud to be a cassette head !!! I've been collecting cassettes since the 80s.👍🙂 Everyone likes different kinds of formats.For me it's cassettes. Soon the New Cassette players will be here and then we won't have to deal with the crappy players outhere today.

@anadialog

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the rumor of new decks was released in one if my recent videos: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z2mc1rOvlrmrqZc.html

I love cassette and i was afraid that it will disappear, but now is making a come back!!!! yesssss

Great video. Cassettes are cool in so many ways, and they also enjoy the advantage of being easier to use than vinyl. I have (currently) a Teac A-303 in my living room system, and it's so much fun to pop in say, Neil Diamond's Hot August Night and let it play. I like cassettes best for when I don't want to listen critically, but just want some music playing while I do other things. They're great for that. And who doesn't like big, incandescent-lit VU meters swinging away? I need to buy a lava lamp....

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed! It's difficult to communicate that to newbies...

@zarand2554

Жыл бұрын

I have lots of lava lamps. Even 2 Grandes. (Large 2 foot tall ones). As I'm currently typing this I'm listening to a tape. I'm 20, soon to be 21. Cassette player is my dads old player. Tape is one of his old tapes.

Point 11 suggestion: « Custom play list » What is the only solution to get an easy personal playlist with analog sound ? Answer: Cassettes! (also possible with real to real tape but more expensive) p.s. Buying vintage or used cassette decks is good for the planet, less waste, less Co2, better sound, spare parts available. Have fun 😊

Love the new intro!

Great content. I've always liked saturation that cassettes give to the sound. Also, they look so cool and you can rewind with a pencil :D. Point 8 Modern music can be too sterile. No wonder there are many tape saturation plugins for production, but I guess nothing beats the real thing. Point 10 I'm pretty happy that music inspired with the 80's is so popular today. This would be perfect match for the cassette. If this style sticks around for long enough (fingers crossed) maybe manufacturers will start to make at least decent decks. They sill make high quality turntables, right?

I'm a metalhead and a lot of the more underground bands are releasing music on cassette.

I absolutely love tapes! I still have hundreds from the 90s. Lately I can’t stop getting vintage decks.. either for free, or damn near free.

@anadialog

Жыл бұрын

I hear ya!

I record my high end vinyl records using an Aiwa AD F990 and Type IV metal tapes. I make mix tapes as well as complete album recordings. I still have a stock alpine cassette deck in my 02 Lincoln Continental. It's nice because I can listen to my records on the road!

@anadialog

2 жыл бұрын

Coooool!!

Giovanni from Canada..Love cassettes..sound great recorded on Chrome with a 3 head deck... Salute to Italia ....Love your show ..

Back in the day people would buy vinyl and record those to cassettes and listen to them in their cars or boomboxes. You could also record your favorite songs off the radio for free. I remember not having money as a kid to buy records so I saved up to buy a cheap cassette recorder and got my tunes the old-fashioned way. A lot of young people didn't have a choice in those days Cassettes were the only portable media available. When CD's came out in the 80's not many of us could afford them and forget about buying a player they were out of reach for most of us. Cassette players were standard in cars well into the 90's. I didn't own a high-end cassette deck until the 90's and by then they were yesterday's news. So my experience with cassette tapes was always low-end but back then it was all I had and I never knew the difference but they were fun and brought a lot of joy to a lot of people🙂

I had a lot of cassettes back in the day, i even recorded one of my bands in one including making the cover with lyrics and proper pictures, i still have it and I still have the sony walkman in pristine condition.

Music on cassettes like upbeat and acoustic gives of a therapeutic vibe

Hey I was almost hopping that intro could be the Anadialog intro, oh the cassette player takes me back to the days of my own earlier equipment. I still have a lot of cassettes, I just need to get myself a modern player.

@BilisNegra

3 жыл бұрын

Good luck finding a decent modern one though.

Totally 100% right...Never really liked music on USB-stick...that's why i'm back in cassettes now.. the big Company's like Technics..Pioneer..Kenwood ..Sony..Denon and...Nakamichi should make new high-end decks and TDK...Maxell and Sony should make new tapes again..quality tapes..like typ-2 and type-4..than the prices also will be back normal.. great video bro..thanx..hope the big company's see this also.(they really should bring back the decks and tapes to us..,they'll also do big business with it..).I have a Nakamichi ZX-7 and the sound is...simply sublime..unreal..even recorded on a type-1 tape.. :) grtz..

Informative video, thanks! I used cassettes in the past to record my music and it was a pain the butt then went to DAT (Sony Digital Audio Tape), that was more like Nirvana to me. Anyway I won’t be going back to this medium - today I am very happy going from a vinyl to a CD or just stream music.

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

DAT is a great medium, I agree!

Nobody mentioned it, but cassettes go for 25 cents at most thrift shops. I'm always looking for vinyl, but notice they have 10 or 20 times number of cassettes than vinyl, so I keep buying cassettes as well.

Great to see a Post on this topic and I agree with all you have said. However, I have a concern about the players. My dual well Akai deck gave up the ghost a few months back. Finding someone to repair it was very hard. So I went hunting for a replacement, without going into a long story the big problem I found was getting a deck that I could have serviced or could obtain parts for. There are new decks but I think there are around 2 ( maybe 3) manufacturers producing heads for these new decks and I just don't yet trust the new decks to have the quality that matches the potential of cassettes. I ended up getting an obscure make ( Braun ) simply because I found someone who was restoring that make and had the spare parts.

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

Servicing is always a pain and never know if done properly. With this vintage and vinyl resurgence a lot of techs are back into service. Here in Italy there are quite a few for example, you need to hunt them out but they are there and very competent. If not serviced, a vintage piece of gear in order to work properly must always hit a lab, unfortunately. After that, the reword of having something unique for quite a long period of time is grandiose.

I got three boxes of my old cassettes that I left at my uncles. I have a Sony dual cassette deck. I got it for $5 at an estate sale. It works great. Do you think that I should toss it aside and start looking for a more vintage and higher quality deck? Another question: what labels put out higher quality cassettes? Blue Note? I have tons of bootleg shows on cassettes, heavy metal, some early alternative, classic rock, and tons of mix tapes. It’s funny, just tonight a younger guy at work said his car has a cassette deck but he doesn’t own any cassettes. I thought about making him a mix cassette but I remembered a horrible experience making a mix tape for Ed Marshall the engineer that worked on Hotel California. He said “I loved the songs, but each one was at a different volume. I had get the levels the same and put it on a new cassette. That took the wind out of my sails, as far as making mix cassettes. Before that I thought I was awesome at making mix cassettes. So sad....

I grew up with Cassettes and once I heard a CD for the first time I was ready to leave them in the past.

I agree especially on point number ten. The idea of recording digitally produced music to an analogue media is kinda cool.

I love hearing that cassette are back and remember going to the record stores to get new reviews so I could make a mix tape. I miss the excitement of that ritual and spending hours choosing what I wanted on the mix tape. I used to find the newest music and try to make my mix tapes different from with music most ppl. didn’t have yet or knew about. It was like making your own production and movie. And the tapes you could play on the boombox, Walkman, home deck and car tape deck. I’ve also been buying and collecting boomboxes, so glad to know I’m not alone bc most things I like doing, I do it whether other ppl. are doing it or not.

@jacknjill3000

12 күн бұрын

Oh and it was common to buy some blank tapes at places like Tower Records while you went record shopping. Record stores and electronic stores were really fun to go to. Always ppl. inside those stores and something to always want and drool over. There was a special exhibit I went to at the SFMOMA that showcases vintage audio equipment and Rick concert posters. It was packed on the free day i went and on that day, they even had vintage record genders and I ended up finding about $100. worth. The prices were reasonable and much cheaper bc you didn’t have to pay shipping and could look at the condition . So, vinyl, tapes, vintage electronics is back in a big way, I mean something that big like something like loving vintage cars, how could it not be appreciated by the newer generation? Oh and club dancing needs to come back and that was a big part of that whole music scene in the 80’s and 90’s, why breakdancing was a hit part of that tape and vinyl culture,

@anadialog

11 күн бұрын

Great memories! I am very happy and feel lucky to have experienced that as well.

I never liked pre-recorded cassettes; they seemed to not sound as good as a record. So I would buy the album or single and record it onto a high quality cassette.

@grizzlyaddams3606

3 жыл бұрын

Tbh there is a wide variety of quality levels when it comes to cassesttes. From some being quite mediocre to others being absolutely incredible sounding. In a way this makes cassesettes even more appealing to me. Yeah, I know there are variances with vynil amd they'll last forever... Jajajaja...

@RealEpikCartfrenYT

2 жыл бұрын

I can confirm. I bought several SEALED pre-recorded albums for $1 each when I first started getting into cassettes as a format (Im 18) and I found several that had recording errors. On one album, one song kept skipping which is impossible to happen on cassettes (tape was seemingly dubbed from a CD), and another one played way too fast on one side, while the other side was recorded correctly. One tape had no left channel.

@sc0or

2 жыл бұрын

Simply imagine number of records those magnetic heads perform. And this is the answer why your home made recording is way better than their.

@tturner12341

Жыл бұрын

I believe my homemade mixtapes sound better than a pre recorded cassette tape. But, having a nice cassette recorder is very important. They’re out there if you know where look for them.

@tturner12341

Жыл бұрын

Remember the Digalog cassettes from the early to mid 1990’s? Warner Brothers put them out.

I enjoyed this interesting video. I find Cassetts fun to use.

I have around 984 Cassettes I love them.

I would love it if music cassettes came back on the market im just ready to buy buy o please come back.

Yes. And I want quality analog player/recorders.

I don't have a lot of tapes but I do love them. The underground metal scene is filled with bands releasing cassettes, especially black metal. Somehow, that music sounds perfect on that format... For some reason, tapes have a nice round, full body bass sound in my system. Not that accurate or fast, but I enjoy it. Currently running a Nakamichi 480.

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

True! Metal has has a large cassette fanbase!

8:52 Not just because of distortion, but be cause the analog system does a "full capture" of the audio! Like a film photograph, so you get (pretty much depending on type) the full microphone capture of the audio with very little loss ( with practically no loss with type II, and even less loss with type IV)!

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the tonal richness is amazing, perhaps not perfectly reproduced (digital people will get angry otherwise) but present and...distorted (in a very pleasant manner).

Denon DRW 850 in the living room for years. A few cassetes here, tons in boxes in the basement...

Can I give a ❤ to this video? 😄 And I give you this: longevity: I still can hear my voice of when I was 3 y.o. because it's on a cassette and I can still listen to cassettes that were patiently recorded for me 30 years ago by friends, girlfriends and admirers 🙂

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

I have a recording of when I was a little boy too...amazing memories!

I have a good collection of NOS blank cassettes, and enjoy the process of selecting the right one for the type of music I want to record. Peeling off the wrapper is like opening a time capsule (even the smell). I have a fondness for the 'super ferric' Type I cassettes, and like to push the recording levels to the limit of the tape (a 3 head is essential for comparing the source and recorded output in real time). For myself, it's just another way to appreciate music.

@anadialog

Жыл бұрын

Nice!

We need a company to start making Type II tapes again. This Type I stuff is just not cutting it. I appreciate what companies like National in the USA are doing, but my old CrO2 Maxell's from the 1980's sound WAY better than the brand new 2021 National Ferric type I's. And if a couple of manufacturers would put out a deck that is capable of 20-20,000 Hz that sure would be nice. Like you said, a music greeting card sounds better than the Chinese USB portables you see all over the place (Many of which are not even STEREO).

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

That is one of my wildest dreams...🤞🤞🤞

@infoinfo8433

3 жыл бұрын

Get NOS. Any tapes that are made today most likely come from China & are pure crap. I Just got some TDK SA-90 Tapes from 1985 & 1987 & some D-90s from 1982, They sound phenomenal.

Great video my advice when you play a tape play it through don't stop in the middle that causes snares and always rewind you're tapes they will last longer!

I love cassettes because of the vibe you know? The aesthetics and the fact I can put whatever I want on them and make my own j cards with whatever I want

@anadialog

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

... bought two AKAI gr-6 decks and collected some NOS Chrome Tapes ... love them, Cheers!

@anadialog

2 жыл бұрын

Good job!

for nostalgic reasons i still stick to cassette tapes, i recorded my first tape in the early 70s and still use cassette tapes, i love sticking to the 70s and 80s analog setup. I also have multiroom streaming so I can hear my tapes in all rooms throughout my home, but in the two true listening rooms I have several cassette recorders.

I had a love hate relationship with compact cassette. Pre-recorded tapes often sounded awful as head alignment of the duplication machines was all over the place. I would have a loved a deck that would allow adjustment of the azimuth of the head like a Nakamichi CR-7. Recording at home was another matter. My favourite desk for recording was a Proton 740 deck factory calibrated to Maxell XL tapes and it had dbx noise reduction. dbx was great for most music (not solo piano). CDs and vinyl recorded to tape on this sounded so good with no tape hiss and great frequency response. I once bought a dbx encoded Dave Brubeck vinyl but no dbx decoder to play it through. So I recorded it to tape without any noise reduction enabled and played it back with the dbx in the tape deck enabled. Truly astonishing sound quality. Then the amazing Dolby S came out and the tape market fizzled out. Nice to see an interest in it again. I still have my tapes from the 80s and 90s but no cassette desk or boombox!

@nikolaki

3 жыл бұрын

I still have my Sony Walkman Professional!

@anadialog

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!

sound quality tbh can be pretty hit and miss especially with older tapes..... BUT when you listen to a really good one on a decent machine..............WOW !!!